Regular expressions take a lot of the hassle out of writing lines and lines of repetitive code to validate a string. Over the last few pages we've covered all of the basics of Posix standard regular expression patterns including symbols, grouping and the PHP ereg function. We've also seen how to use the regular expression engine to validate some simple strings in PHP.
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